Ve (Arabic letter)

Ve (ڤ) is a letter of the Arabic-based Comoro, Kurdish, Swahili, and Wakhi alphabets.

On the other hand, the letter Pa (ڤ) represents the sound /p/ in the Jawi (used for Malay) and Pegon (used for Javanese) alphabets.

Ve originated as one of the new letters added for the Perso-Arabic alphabet to write New Persian, and it was used for the sound /β/.

This letter is no longer used in Persian, as the [β]-sound changed to [b], e.g. archaic زڤان /zaβɑn/ > زبان /zæbɒn/ 'language'[1] The letter ve is sometimes used in Arabic language to write names and loanwords with the phoneme /v/, such as ڤولڤو (Volvo), ڤيتنام (Vietnam), نوڤمبر (November) and ڤيينا viyenna (Vienna), but rather described, for example, in Egyptian Arabic, it is called fe be talat noʾaṭ (فه بتلات نقط, "Fa' with three dots").

In Tunisian and in Algerian, (ڨ, looks similar to ق but with three dots) is used for /ɡ/, such as in names of places or persons containing a voiced velar stop, as in Gafsa (in Tunisia) or Guelma (in Algeria).

South African text from 1872 by Abu Bakr Effendi in Arabic Afrikaans (upper) and Arabic (lower) showing The ڤ in the word ڤوت (vote) used in Arabic even though the Modern Standard Arabic word for (vote) is صوت /sˤawt/ .
the Greek surname Cavafis in Egypt written كڤافيس.
Tunisian cookie packaging, showing a three-dotted Qāf used to represent / g / in the Arabic transliteration of Galletes ( gālāt ).
An Algerian sign transcribing Greenwich as ڨرينش ‎ ( grīnish ).